Summit Entertainment and the Internet Movie Database have revealed the first teaser trailer for Alex Cross. The title character, who first rose to prominence in a long-running series of novels by author James Patterson, is a tenacious Washington, D.C., police detective specializing in violent criminal pathology, and this new film finds him squaring off against a deranged serial killer (Matthew Fox, Lost) who takes a personal interest in Cross.
Alex Cross does not mark the detective's first screen appearance. In the Paramount Pictures thrillers Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider, Academy Award-winner Morgan Freeman (Million Dollar Baby) played Cross. Alex Cross sees Tyler Perry (Diary of a Mad Black Woman) replacing Freeman; Perry won the part from a long list of potential candidates that included Idris Elba (Prometheus).